sure about Collateral. I wanted to like it (probably one of Cruise's best ever performances), and I thought some the cinematography was outstanding (I love nocturnal films), but a lot of the dialogue was really, really ropey. I think if a movie like that is going to take itself so seriously, it needs to be really sharp, and scenes like the one in the jazz bar (specifically the conversation about Miles Davis) made me feel a little ill. But I still enjoyed it. Weird.

style over substance overrated piece of crap
style over substance overrated piece of crap
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Just wait until you witness his subsequent film "The Fountain": dear o dear o me, it's like a group of French Intellectuals tried to "intellectualize" Fantasia-- I didn't know what the fuck was happening, something about resurrection and The Tree of Life, which he blatantly plaguarised from the ending FMV from Summoner 2 or just about any other final fantasty "denouement" .

& it's not 3 relationships or 3 different periods; it's the same relationship covered through 3 separate layers of reality. basically the husband intrapyshic confict with his wife's impending death and his inability to accept mortality and his powerlessness over it.